Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...
Central to a data cleaning system are record matching and data repairing. Matching aims to identify tuples that refer to the same real-world object, and repairing is to make a dat...
Wenfei Fan, Jianzhong Li, Shuai Ma, Nan Tang, Weny...
—Popular Internet services are hosted by multiple geographically distributed datacenters. The location of the datacenters has a direct impact on the services’ response times, c...
Trust networks, where people leave trust and distrust feedback, are becoming increasingly common. These networks may be regarded as signed graphs, where a positive edge weight cap...
Cho-Jui Hsieh, Kai-Yang Chiang, Inderjit S. Dhillo...
The Hierarchical Conditional Random Field (HCRF) model have been successfully applied to a number of image labeling problems, including image segmentation. However, existing HCRF m...
Xavier Boix, Josep M. Gonfaus, Joost van de Weijer...